innovation platforms

Horizon 2020, the EU program for funding research & development and innovation (RDI) was launched last year and entered the implementation period in January 2014. It already offers interesting opportunities for local development projects. What is some of the reasoning behind Horizon 2020? Unlike FP7, the new Horizon 2020 program has a stronger focus on .. read more

Steven Johnson’s 2012 book “Where good ideas come from” is definitely an eye-opening introduction to the history of innovation and to how we can design our environments so that they allow innovation to happen. Steven Johnson illustrated about 200 examples of innovation processes and the features they have in common. We can draw several lessons .. read more

I’ve been following OpenIDEO for some time now and I am constantly amazed at the sheer amount of ideas that people from all over the world generate for each topic challenged. OpenIDEO is an “open innovation platform” that strives to “support people to design together for social good” and it places communities (be they online .. read more